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Quotes About Humor

It's been a long day. I got shot at, got a water tower dumped on my head, and had my wedding fall apart. Now Wayne is dropping broken walnut shells all over my chair. Honestly, I think I just need a drink.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I like cutting off toes," Tonk Fah noted. "That's different," Denth said. "You wouldn't do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?" "Nah," Tonk Fah said. "Toes is toes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What! That's a tragedy." "Melody, everything is a tragedy to you." "Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters! That's it. No more discussion. We're going. Follow.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze
~ Brandon Sanderson
She took my other sense of taste. The important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and my sense of self. The last one stung the most, since it appears my sense of self is tied directly to my wit. I mean, it's in the name
~ Brandon Sanderson
Try not to flirt with the girl," Wit whispered. "Young Adolin seems to be growing possessive. Or... what am I saying? Flirt with the girl, Kaladin. It might make the prince's eyes bulge.
~ Brandon Sanderson
So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Ranette said a lot of mean things, but they weren't ... well, they weren't actually mean. He joked, and she joked. And sure, sometimes there was an edge of truth to it, but that's what friends was about. Making you look a little silly when you were together, so that you didn't look really stupid when you were apart.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Socrates was a funny little Greek man best known for forgetting to write things down and for screaming, "Look, I'm a philosopher!" in the middle of a No Philosophy zone. (He was later forced to eat his words. Along with some poison.)
~ Brandon Sanderson
My other hand?" Lopen said. "The one that was cut off long ago, eaten by a fearsome beast? It is making a rude gesture toward you right now. I thought you would wish to know, so that you can prepare to be insulted.
~ Brandon Sanderson
This is my story. Or, well, part four of it. Otherwise known as "The part where everything goes wrong, and then Alcatraz has a cheese sandwich.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You're starting to sound a lot like my mother.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Repetitive.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Very funny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
They want me to make a drumstick sandwich. I don't think that these are edible, but you know, whatever.
~ Brann Dailor
Ahhh! Impossibear has a gas powered stick!
~ Breehn Burns
Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don't know him.
~ Breehn Burns
I think that's the biggest watch-out with irony and sarcasm: Are you dressing something up in humor that actually requires clarity and honesty?
~ Brene Brown
I've seen Ellen turn a boring day into a fully choreographed song and dance routine to the Wicked soundtrack,
~ Brene Brown
Anne Lamott, whom I once heard say, "Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness." Amen!
~ Brene Brown
Sex can be complicated," her mother said. "But it's just sex." "That's so French of you," Joanie said, her tears giving way to laughter. "What sort of mother would say that to her daughter?
~ Brenda Janowitz
This is the kind of person you marry—someone who loves the worst parts of you, someone who knows how to make you laugh even when you're mad as hell.
~ Brenda Janowitz
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.
~ Brenda Ueland
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Brendan Behan